Army veteran Lee Hernandez, 47, suffers from a debilitating stroke condition that has been deemed terminal after three brain surgeries were unable to pinpoint the cause. All his doctors can do to help is make him more comfortable in hospice care. But Hernandez does have one dying wish: to hear from you.

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How You Can Grant This Dying Army Vet’s Final Wish With Just A Text

Army veteran Lee Hernandez, 47, suffers from a debilitating stroke condition that has been deemed terminal after three brain surgeries were unable to pinpoint the cause. All his doctors can do to help is make him more comfortable in hospice care. But Hernandez does have one dying wish: to hear from you.

His wife, Ernestine, learned that text messages and phone calls make her husband, who spent 18 years in the Army and did a tour in Iraq, light up.

Lee, who is being cared for at a hospital in New Braunfels, Texas, asked his wife to hold onto his phone “in case someone calls,” but after his phone was silent for two hours, he said “I guess no one wants to talk to me.”

Hearing that, Ernestine new she had to act.

“It broke my heart,” Ernestine told AZCentral. His “speech is not very well, so many people didn’t take much interest or want to talk to him.”

So she reached out to Caregivers of Wounded Warriors, an advocacy group for caregivers, and the Arizona Veterans Forum posted his wish to Facebook, along with his phone number.